Emeriti News

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share with other members of the Emeriti, please email it to Mark Shapiro -
)

We have added a new feature to our CSUF
Emeriti News Page. The CSU-ERFA "news box" on the left
includes links to recent news of interest to all retired faculty
and staff members from the California State University
Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association. (If you
don't see the news box, refresh your browser and it should
load.)

November 2010

Roger L. Albers:We have
received the very sad news that Sandy Sutphen's husband,
Roger L. Albers, has passed away following a long battle
with cancer.

Information about a memorial service for Roger will be sent
out when we receive it.

Emeriti Holiday Event: This
year's Emeriti Holiday Event will be the Sunday December
12th, 4 PM performance of "Christmas at Cal State Fullerton"
featuring the University Singers, Concert Choir, and Brass
Ensemble followed by a special reception for Emeriti
Members. Tickets for the concert (reservations must be
made with the Theater Box Office Manager Sandra Clark --
657-278-5936) cost $20 per person (or 3 Music Pass points).
The cost for the reception following the concert is $5 per
person. A reservation form for the reception can be
downloaded here.

Ted Smyth recently wrote a tribute to
J. William Maxwell; and, Ed Sowell wrote one
for Gene F. Rose. Check our
Tributes
page to view them.

Ms.
Moore received the
undergraduate scholarship for her outstanding academic
achievements and community activities. She is a major
in International Business with a concentration in Chinese.
She is studying this summer at the Shanghai International
Studies University. In China she is conducting research for
her undergraduate Honors thesis on how the modern economic
histories of China and the U.S. have affected their
respective systems of higher education. Ms. Moore also
has contributed in positions of leadership to numerous
campus and off-campus organizations. In addition, she
has received many awards, including an Outstanding Student
Internationalist all-chapter award from the Phi Beta Delta
International Honor Society.

Ms. Ordaz, the recipient of the
Graduate Scholarship, plans to study for a doctorate in
American Studies after completing her M.A. degree in that
field next year. Jessica completed triple undergraduate
majors in History, Women’s Studies, and Global Studies from
the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she
received the University Award of Distinction in 2008. Her
sensitive and insightful scholarship is illustrated in a
research paper she recently delivered entitled “California
Beautiful: Places of Oppression and Spaces of Resistance
throughout the Early Twentieth Century” in which she reads
architecture and agrarian landscapes as historical
documents. Throughout her life she has been heavily
involved in social justice organizations and gender and
cultural issues and she has a particular passion for
teaching for which she has found outlets as a tutor in
numerous situations.

Funds for the Emeriti Memorial Scholarships come from an
endowment established by the Emeriti to honor deceased
members. In addition to voluntary contributions from
members, a contribution to the endowment is made as a
tribute to each deceased member of the Association. In
recent years the Emeriti, in addition to funding Memorial
Scholarships, have made annual contributions to the Guardian Scholars Program.
The Guardian Scholars Program helps foster children continue
their university education when they become emancipated at
age 18.

This
year Emeriti members Dorothy Heidi and Charles Frazee
assisted Linda Andersen with the interview and selection
process.

We have received the sad news that
Anthony Schipsi, husband of Erika
Bakken - Administrative Analyst/Specialist, Academic
Senate Emeritus - passed away on June 20th from cancer.
Memorial services were held at Messiah Lutheran Church in
Yorba Linda, CA on Friday, June 25th. The family requests that donations in Tony's memory be made to
the
American Cancer Society or
to the Crosson Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude
Hospital in Fullerton.

"Sy" Scheinberg has
prepared a tribute for Danton B. Sailor, Professor of
History Emeritus, who passed away in 1999. Visit our
Emeriti Tributes page to view the
tribute.

May 2010

Howard Seller has provided us with an
excellent tribute to Don Austin, Professor of English
Emeritus, who passed away in 2004, and Charles Frazee has
prepared an excellent tribute to George Saint-Laurent,
Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, who passed away in
2008. Visit our
Emeriti Tributes
page to view the tribute.

April 2010

Our March 5th Emeriti Luncheon was
exceptionally well attended, and our speaker Professor David
Bowman's talk on "Earthquake Hazards" indeed was timely
following by a few weeks the great earthquake in Chile and
preceding by a few more weeks the 7.2M event in Baja
California that was felt widely in the area. Pictures
from the Luncheon will be posted soon.

Tributes for Raymond V. Adams, Professor of
Physics Emeritus; Andrew F. Montana, Professor of Chemistry
Emeritus; and Ronald J. Crowley, Professor of Physics
Emeritus recently have been added to the
Emeriti Book of
Tributes.

Tai K. Oh, Professor of Management
Emeritus, died March 29 of lung cancer. He was 76
years old. Oh served the university for 28 years and
was an expert in human resource management and had served as
a seminar leader and consultant in both the public and
private sectors with such agencies as Atlantic Richfield,
Epson America and Disneyland. Oh served on the
editorial board of the Academy of Management Review,
was an international referee for Asian Pacific Journal of
Management and authored articles that were published in
such publications as Nation's Business, Academy of
Management Review, Journal of Chinese Philosophy,
and California Management Review. During his
tenure at Cal State Fullerton, Oh also served as a visiting
professor of management at the University of Hawaii, Manoa,
and a visiting lecturer at Fachhochschule in Nuertingen,
Germany. He earned his doctorate in industrial
relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Gretchen; three
children, Erica Oh Martinetti, Elizabeth Nordlund, and Emily
Navarro; four grandchildren; and siblings, Tai Kyeung Kim,
Min Ja Lah, and Jun Ja Kim.

Granville W. Hough,
Professor of Management Emeritus, died on March 3 from
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) at the age of 87. He
was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, and served in
the Army for 22 years with tours in South Korea, Puerto Rico
and Greenland. During his tenure in the Army, Hough
completed M.S. degrees in business administration at George
Washington University and mechanical engineering at USC, and
his Ph.D. in public administration at the American
University. He joined the university in 1968 and
served for 15 years, including a three-year term as
department chair, before being awarded emeritus status.
Hough then continued to teach under the Faculty Early
Retirement Program through June 1991.
He is survived by his son, David and his wife, Brenda;
daughters Nancy Hough, and Bonny Miller and husband, Jerry;
his brother, Donald Hough; and two grandchildren.

Levern F. Graves, Professor
of Economics Emeritus, passed away on March 2nd at the age
of 86 years. Graves joined the campus in 1960 after
teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Florida
State University, Tallahassee. During his 26 years of
service on campus, Graves was a long-standing member of the
California State University Academic Senate, serving as its
chair in 1970-71 following his chairmanship of the Economics
Department. In addition to teaching economic history
and theory, he served as a consultant to the State Assembly
and to area business. He earned his doctorate from UC
Berkeley. He is survived by his wife, Diane.

Paul W. Kane, Professor of
Secondary Education Emeritus, passed away on Jan. 29, 2010 at the
age of 72. He had been fighting heart disease, a brain tumor
and Parkinson's Disease since he retired from campus in 2000.
Kane joined the university in 1968 after six years of teaching at
Buena Park High School and one year at Wayne State University.
He moved up the tenure ranks, becoming a full professor in 1976, and
served in a number of administrative positions, including chair of
the teacher education division and acting dean of the School of
Education in 1974. He also was named acting dean of the School
of Human Development and Community Service in 1978-79, and followed
that with several terms as chair of the Secondary Education
Department. Kane, who earned his doctorate at USC, was a member of a
number of professional organizations, including the National Council
for Social Studies, the California Council for Social Studies, Phi
Delta Kappa and the Orange County Area Social Science Association in
which he served as president, a member of the executive board and
newsletter editor. He is survived by his wife, Carol; his
sons, Mark, Kevin, John and Neil; and nine grandchildren.

A celebration of Kane's life will be held 1-5 p.m.,
Saturday, April 17 — his birthday — at the Yorba Linda Community
Center, 4501 Casa Loma Ave., Yorba Linda, CA 92886-3315. The family
has requested no flowers.

The Book of Tributes for deceased
members of the Emeriti is now available online.
Colleagues who wish to prepare a tribute for a deceased
member of the Emeriti should send copy as a Microsoft Word
attachment or plain text email to the Emeriti Webmaster.

The UNIVERSITY
CLUB

AN INVITATION
TO JOIN

(Free…
really!)

(Note from your webmaster: Tony Rimmer,
Director of the Faculty Development Center, recently sent me email
about the newly-formed University Club. The Club is open to
all faculty (including Emeriti) as well as staff and
administrators. If you are interested in participating, please
contact Tony Rimmer (his email is listed below) to be placed on the
mailing list.)

The University Club is a relatively new campus organization of
faculty, staff and administrators who support, sponsor, and host a
number of community enhancing and cultural activities throughout the
year. The University Club is an unofficial, loosely organized group
that seeks to encourage social and intellectual interactions and
strengthen the campus community.

Any member of the university community is welcome to join at no
membership cost. All it takes to join is to respond to this message
and you will be placed on the University Club e-mail list. There is
no obligation. You will receive a limited number of announcements
each year about upcoming activities and you can unsubscribe at any
time. While most of these activities will be open to the entire
university community, some will be announced only to individuals who
are on the University Club mailing list.

The type of activities we intend to sponsor include a variety of
events, such as theatre outings, faculty presentations, family
picnics, field trips, docent museum tours, sporting activities, and
purely social gatherings. We will also support similar events put on
by other campus groups. A partial listing of some activities for
this fall include:

vDocent tour of the Mummies
exhibit at the Bowers Museum followed by a no-host lunch at Tangata
(November 13, 11 am-2 pm, $25/ticket). See attachment for more
details.

vGuided tour of our new Performing
Arts Center with theatres and concert hall (Fri, Oct. 7, 2:00-3:30
pm). See attachment for more details.

vThird Thursday’s at the Campus
Pub

vBrown bag lunch talks

vA night at the theatre

vHoliday party at the home of
Reyes Fidalgo

More details on these events are forthcoming, so if you are on the
University Club mailing list, you will receive more information in
the future! So come join this group of delightful, fun-loving and
interesting colleagues!

If
you are interested in participating, simply respond to this message
by sending an email to Tony Rimmer and indicate either:

Yes, I want to be on the University Club mailing list.

Or

Yes, I want to be on the University Club mailing list, AND participate
in planning events.